Sunday, January 25, 2015

AND JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT I DIDN’T HAVE ANY MORE PHOTOS FROM BLOGGER-FEST:))

MORNING IN OUR NEIGHBORS JOSHUA TREE GARDEN

As nice as it was to spend 5 days in the rig it was just as nice moving my things back into the house late Saturday morning & resuming my old routines. Guess you could say I always look forward to something different but also enjoy my same-same routines as well. Well, for awhile anyway.

After a week of company wrapped up with our visit to Blogger-Fest I think we’ll keep a pretty low profile now for awhile & just kind of putter around the old home front for a bit. Better give it a few days before I bring up the topic of heading off to California’s Mojave's National Preserve soon.

TIS THE TIME OF YEAR FOR NEST BUILDING HERE IN OUR LITTLE SLICE OF ARIZONA

Think it was around noon when John (Sarge) & Jackie dropped around to see how we’re doing so we sat ourselves up on the porch for a spell out of the Sun. Wasn’t long & we saw a familiar yellow Jeep go by then return a short time later. It was Janna, Mike, & Emmi stopping by. They hadn’t met John & Jackie before. Had ourselves a rousing chat before John & Jackie had to head on back home. Janna & Mike stayed awhile longer & Mike volunteered to install our new KC Fog Lights on the Jeep. Janna & Mike slipped on home for lunch & Mike later returned with some tools. Didn’t take him long to remove the old fogs & hook up the new fogs. And they worked too. We had also bought a new Oxygenic shower head for the RV & Mike was able to install that for us as well. Kelly gets a little nervous if she knows I’m going to try & do things like that so not wanting to up her stress levels it is always best I just step aside & let someone far more experienced & competent do those kinds of things. Generally turns out to be one of my better decisions as a rule.

THANKS MIKE MUCH APPRECIATED:))

It was after 11 before I finally crawled into bed Saturday night. Editing about 60 photos, looking up links, & cross checking photos for identification took up a lot of time. After talking to Kelly this morning with a clearer head on my shoulders I was able to make a few changes & correct some info. Below is my re-freshed memory update to Saturday’s Blogger-Fest. Oh & by the way, I did get myself a little gussied up for Saturday’s event. Left my baggy butt jeans at home, slipped into a pair of dress pants I hadn’t worn since early April of 2013, & wore my very much most best favorite Thrift Store shirt I found last month in Borrego Springs. Groovy:))

A few of these photos are repeats because I didn’t have an ID on them Saturday night.

<<< This is Betty & Joe from JOE & BETTY'S ADVENTURES sitting behind Doug & Yuma . I don’t have a photo for the Heyduke folks at On The Road Of Retirement but we met these 2 fine people as well. Chatted with fellow dog lovers Kelly & Angela from RV Life Is Good for a bit & it’s always nice to meet someone thinking as we do about our treasured pets. My ears did catch a side comment from someone suggesting I put too many photos of Pheebs in my posts. Well of course I do….wouldn’t you:)) Another fellow had a question about what resolution I use for my photos & of course I didn’t know. That was kinda embarrassing for me.

LEFT PHOTO: THAT IS ONE OF THE EVENT ORGANIZERS GERI/JERRY FROM JUST WANDERIN ON THE LEFT & SASSY ON THE RIGHT…I THINK SASSY’S GETTING READY TO HAWK A SPITBALL AT ME & BY GOLLY THERE’S NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHER SANDIE FROM WHERE ARE THE DIXONS TODAY… SANDIE WAS ALSO ONE OF THE MAIN ORGANIZERS

SASSY & JIM DIXON…GEEEEEZZZZZ THAT SASSY GETS AROUND

PAUL WEAVER HAS A CHUCKLE AS SANDIE RETHINKS HER ROLL AS NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHER FOR THE DAY…LIKED THE SHORT LITTLE CHAT WE HAD SANDIE:))

SOMEBODY WONDERED WHERE ALL THE PRETZELS WENT….HMMMM, I BET JUDY KNOWS:))

And a few more folks we met at the Fest…John & Aileen from John & Aileen on the road…De Johnson from Plein Air Journey. And my apologies if I have forgotten anyone. If I have it certainly was not intentional. Just saw your comment Jan Mains, were you wearing a red jacket? And last but not least….. we may have been late arriving at Blogger-Fest but by golly we were just about two of the last people to leave. Now how about that:))

GROANER’S CORNER:(( Howard came home from work one evening and there was his wife Miriam in the kitchen crying out loud. "What's the matter, darling?" he asked her. "I just don't know what to do," said Miriam. "Because we were eating in for a change, I cooked us a special dinner - but the dog has just eaten it." "Don't worry," said Howard, "I'll get us another dog."

So glad you could make! I'm sure there will be lots more pictures being passed around. Heck, I haven't even caught my breathe yet from all the activities in our group and the blogger-fest..... maybe today.

Really good of you to prioritize Kelly's stress level and "let" Mike install the showerhead - you're a giver :-) Love the birds....the berry-in-beak shot is great! Noticed you were looking pretty dapper at the fest - and yet everyone still recognized you!!! Thanks for the additional pics - great to see more that profile shots of those familiar folks.

AL'S CAMERA EQUIPMENT

A sometimes asked question readers have about my blog is what kind of a camera do I use. Well I have 5 of them and use all 5.

'UPDATE':: July 2017 Thanks to a very generous blog reader I have been able to update my Nikon camera equipment and supplement my camera gear with a couple additional fine Sony cameras as well.I now have a Nikon D7200 sporting a new Nikkor 18-300 3.5 zoom lens. Also have picked up a new Nikkor 1.8 primary 35mm lens. In addition I also now have a Sony RX100-3 camera as well as a Sony Exmore Cybershot. I have given my Canon Powershot point and shoot camera to a neighbor.

- In early 2017 I replaced my Nikon D-90 camera with a new D-3400 after the 'auto focus' feature on my aging D-90 quit working. The Nikon D-90 had been my work horse camera sporting a Nikkor 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 lens. I used this camera for most of my landscapes and I now have it set up for night photography where 'auto focus' is not necessary.

-My older faithful and favorite Nikon D-40 finally packed it in during the summer of 2015 and I replaced it with a new Nikon D-3100 which now carries my Nikkor 70-300mm 1:4.5-6.6 lens. I use this camera & lens for most of my candid people photos, birds, animals, bugs & flower close-ups.

- Previous to my Nikon D-90, most of my photos were taken with my old faithful Nikon D-50 from 2006 to early 2011 whereupon the D-50 suffered a rather gruesome death when it fell off a table onto a cement porch in southeastern Arizona. The 70-300mm lens on the camera survived the fall but the D-50 did not. My Nikkor lenses are interchangable between the D-90 the D-3100 and the D-3400.

-My Canon Powershot SX210iS is a point & shoot camera which I carry in a case on my belt everywhere I go.-My older Canon Powershot A720iS is the camera that sits close to my recliner for most of those doggy living room photos.